Comments on: WARNING – NUTRO Making Dogs Sick

By: Punkin

Punkin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:32:55 +0000

I have 4 Large Goldens and 1 Standard Poodle. I have fed Nutro for years. I have switched around from Natural Choice to Max to Ultra, back to Max. My dogs are beautiful and thrive on any of the Nutro products. Back when I fed another brand, I had a Golden get stomach cancer. Now none of the 5 have a thing to complain about. I am complaining because I am so concerned over what seems to be so much negative bashing about pet foods. I get that it is a dog-eat-dog world in corporate America but leave us consumers, paranoid or otherwise, out of your wars and your negative blogging. We love Nutro, ingredients and price and performance.

By: Tina

Tina — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:36:00 +0000

I switched our three little dogs over to Nutro Ultra (for small breeds)two years ago and was pleasantly surprised at how much healthier they were! My 11 year-old dog was overweight, lethargic, itchy, and had a horrible coat. The other two were starting to head down the same path.

After starting the Nutro the 11 year-old started losing lbs., his coat became thick and shiny, he stopped wheezing and itching, and he started bouncing around like a new dog! The other two did well on this food too. I recommended this miracle dog food to my family and friends!

I bought a new bag of Nutro Ultra two weeks ago and soon after all three dogs started vomiting and became lethargic. I assumed they must have eaten something outside they shouldn’t have. My oldest dog became very sick. He immediatley got well when I started feeding him and the other dogs homecooked dog food.

When they were better I slowly started reintroducing their Nutro. They became sick again and this time my littlest dog is very ill. It’s late on a Sunday night, but I’m up keeping watch because she’s pacing, whining, and can’t urinate. She hasn’t eaten in two days and looks very poorly all of a sudden. The other dogs started vomiting again and have been very lethargic. I’m worried I may need to rush the littlest one in to the emergency clinic in the middle of the night!

I signed onto the internet to look up possible reasons and maybe some way to help her feel better and found so many complaints against Nutro. I’m shocked and angry, to say the least! I trusted them with my dogs lives and they’ve failed to keep them healthy.

They can continue to deny, deny, deny all they want, but I am sending my dog food to an independant lab. They better hope my dogs do not die or they’re going to have one angry mama and her lawyer to contend with!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:58:08 +0000

I have been feeding my dogs Neutro for yeares and have had no complaints. My sister has three dogs and began feeding them Neutro several months ago. About a month ago she noticed that her dogs were lethargic and not wanting to eat. Shortly after the lethargy set in, the dogs began to vomit. Her intuition told her that it was the food, she searched for information online and realized that many other pet owner had the same concerns. She switched food and the dogs began to miraculously feel better. I thought maybe her dogs were just sick and she was over-reacting. Until just now. My dogs vomited two nights ago and I thought maybe they had been given some table food that upset their stomachs. My smaller dog is still vomiting, but only bile is coming up as he heaves. They are avoiding their dish like the plague. Too bad. Another company is probably going under. You can’t quickly overcome this type of negative publicity.

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:57:21 +0000

I fed my rotti Nutro for years – but she always ate a lot of grass and occasionally vomitted. Then when she passed away I had some left over to which I started feeding to my rescue cocker spaniel. Within 2 weeks he started vomitting. He was so bad I took him to the vet and his first question was “what kind of dog food are you feeding?” When I told him Nutro – he said “GET RID OF THAT NOW!” He said it is one of the worse dog foods for dogs to digest. I switched cold turkey to canidae and after the first meal – no more vomitting.

By: Kevin L

Kevin L — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:00:37 +0000

I too have a Nutro story. My 2 Airedales have been on Nutro for years; the oldest for 7 and youngest for 3. Both have been healthy their entire lives. In early June both dogs were eating considerable amounts of grass, vomiting and runny stool. I assumed they got into something and that it would be better in a day. It continued for a little more than a week when I started to suspect the food. I took them off Nutro and within 2 days they were better. Faster than expected seeing I changed their food abruptly.

I am convinced they have a problem with their food source and it is causing animals to get sick all across the country.

By: Alaina

Alaina — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:29:58 +0000

Wow! What a shock it is to come across this. I’ve been feeding my two terriers Nutro Ultra Small Breed for the past couple of months now. I am very concious of what type of food I give them(my husband thinks I’m crazy), as I want them to be healthy. I’ve noticed that their stools have been extremely soft lately, and my rat terrier mix has had extremely bad gas(the extra stinky type). My Jack Russell has been a bit lethargic lately, which is completely out of the norm. I was attributing these things to different factors, but I tonight I have official thrown their Nutro in the garbage.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:58:52 +0000

I was feeding my Chocolate Lab Nutro dry food
since I got him in November of 2007. He was fine
and healthy until around April of 2008.
He started vomiting & was very lethargic. It
really worried me, so I took him to the Vet
They said it was pancreatitus and he was in the
Hospital with IV’s, antiboitics for 2-3 days.
When I brought him home he was on a special
precription diet. They told me when he was done
with the special food, to put him back on his regular diet (which was nutro)
He got sick after that,I had him at the Vets again. They did more testing & this time said it was not pancreatitus and gave him antibotics. He got sick again 3rd time and went to the Vet again with IV’s, meds and another stay at the hospital.
As soon as I took him off the Nutro again, he is getting much better. I hope that they take responsibility and remove this food from the stores. I have had Vet bills that are astronomical, plus what my Dog went through. I would hate to have other Dogs go through what my has gone through. My Dog was lucky, but who knows what damage has been done to his organs.

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:31:50 +0000

I adopted a cocker spaniel Nov 2006. I fed him some Nutro that I had left from my Rottweiler. He was Ok with it for about 3 weeks – then he started vomitting – it started out maybe once a week – then more frequently. I took him to the vet and when I told him what I was feeding “Change his food now”. He said he has a lot of “patients” that cannot tolerate Nutro.
I switched him cold turkey to Foster/Smith and he was fine and has been ever since.
Now as I look back – my Rotti occasionally would vomit bile and now I know it was the food. Poor thing and I had no clue and didn’t pursue it as she had other multiple issues.

By: Admin

Admin — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:25:35 +0000

Steve, anything’s possible but it’s an awful lot of coincidence. Actually many of the different dog foods have their own place of manufacturer. Just because their owned by the same company doesn’t mean they’re made in the same processing plant or even use the same ingredients.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:43:29 +0000

I had three Labs and they were all fed Nutro.

My black girl died last December a couple days shy of 12, she had liver cancer. I rememberd the recent problems with food recalls, but really doubted that was the cause.

Basically, in the last couple months of her life, she slowly stopped eating. I tried different brands of dry and canned food, but she wasn’t really interested. She didn’t really even want people food.

Remember, the last recall was food produced by Menu Foods. I find it hard to believe that only one brand, Nutro, would be affected since many come from the same place.

Some of these people said their dogs were throwing up. Is it possible they were just sick and their getting better when their food was changed was just a coincidence?